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Answered Sideways
Ukraine says Belarus switches on repeaters that guide Russian drones. No Belarusian state news site that we follow has named the claim, but pro-regime…
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Aiming Where It Stands
Belarus's targets for 2027 put growth at this year's pace and the reserve floor below what the central bank already holds. For two years running, the…
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A Ledger of Questions
By 30 September, 28 of our watch items had reached their deadline. Only eight said which outcome we expected, and one of our earlier pieces owes a…
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Closing the Inbox
In the third quarter a district court in Grodna added 50 entries to Belarus's register of "extremist materials".
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A Narrow Door From Moscow
Belarus's pro-regime Telegram channels take most of what they forward from Belarusian state sources, and more of it each year from Lukashenko's press…
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The Referee Is Also an Owner
In September Belarus's competition regulator fined A1, the Austrian-owned mobile operator, 109.7 million BYN for a tariff move it began to undo within a…
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September 2026

After the Combines Left
The early harvest explains most of the fall in Belarus's growth in August. Factories and building sites slowed in the same month, while wages and money…
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Everything Except the Law
BIPART maps the ready-made base for state AI in Belarus, and the empty space where its rules should be.
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The Same Day, Told Twice
On the morning of 21 September 2026 Donald Trump wrote that the United States was working on a massive potash deal with Belarus, one that would undercut…
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Where They Went
In late 2020 the EU sanctioned 84 Belarusian officials for the crackdown after the election. Six years on, 83 are still on the list, and the only one…
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Where Minsk Breaks From Moscow
Belarus Brief starts a page of monthly indicators. The first one is the Narrative Divergence Index.
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Recognised Later
A reader challenged how we read the monthly count of new political prisoners. We tested his point on 4,754 people. He is partly right: more of the new…
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